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With COVID on the rise again, here’s a guide to staying safe in 2023

The new COVID shots won’t be available til fall. Here’s what to do in the meantime.

Lynn woman drowns trying to save son at N.H. waterfall

Melissa Bagley jumped into the fast-moving Pemigewasset River at Franconia Falls to help her 10-year-old son, officials said.

Former Mass. Republican Party chair sues his successor and the state GOP itself
The MassGOP is no stranger to infighting, but this is taking it to a new level.

Former Harvard president Drew Faust sees colleges as forces to drive change, tackle inequities
Her new memoir offers a rare window into the experiences and beliefs that shaped the future leader of the world’s most influential university.

Georgia man convicted in murder of 17-year-old Malden girl in 1991
A Middlesex Superior Court jury brought closure to a more than three-decade old killing this week when it found a Georgia man guilty of shooting a 17-year-old Malden girl on the fire escape outside the apartment where she lived with her foster family.

Boston police officer suspended for off-duty theft at Everett casino

A Boston police officer is serving an unpaid three-month suspension for stealing money out of a wallet she found at the Encore Boston Harbor casino, according to a personnel order issued by Police Commissioner Michael A. Cox.

AG Campbell urges Homeland Security to expedite employment process for arriving immigrants

Some abortion drug restrictions are upheld by an appeals court in a case bound for the Supreme Court

Fifteen-year-old Peyton Miller controls the ball during practice with the New England Revolution’s B-team, known as Revolution II.

At 15, he’s the youngest soccer player ever signed by the Revolution. Next up, homework.

He’s just like any high schooler. Except when you’re a soccer phenom inside the Revolution’s elite soccer academy, everything is different.

On Nantucket, billionaires reach agreement in clam shack dispute. But for the owners, the fight to open isn’t over.
Charles Johnson, the principal owner of the San Francisco Giants who owns a fishing cottage next to the proposed restaurant, reached a tentative agreement with fellow billionaire Steve Karp, who owns the property.

Commentary

Tom Cruise still feels the need . . . the need for speed. And I’m here for it.
It’s fashionable to make fun of the Tom Cruiseness of Tom Cruise — his hyper earnestness and intensity, his audacious commitment to doing his own crazy stunts — but I’m a sucker for it.

After watching Mac Jones (right) and the offense through training camp and the first preseason game, Bill Belichick added to the unit with the signing of Ezekiel Elliott.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

By signing Ezekiel Elliott, Bill Belichick acknowledges the offensive disaster of last season even if he never has to say so

This was an acknowledgment that he left the running back cupboard perilously bare behind Rhamondre Stevenson. We’ll call that progress.

Decked out in his new No. 15 Patriots jersey, Ezekiel Elliott ran through drills Wednesday in Green Bay.

Patriots ease in Ezekiel Elliott slowly, and other observations from their joint practice

The new running back did not engage in competitive team periods or full-contact drills in Green Bay, but his new teammates were glad to see him.

USA coach Vlatko Andonovski (R) comforts midfielder #10 Lindsey Horan (L) at the end of the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Women's World Cup round of 16 football match between Sweden and USA at Melbourne Rectangular Stadium on August 6, 2023.

US women’s national team coach Vlatko Andonovski resigns after early World Cup exit, AP source says

US women’s national team coach Vlatko Andonovski has resigned, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The Red Sox bullpen is a world unto itself during ballgames.

Tales from the bullpen: Inside the idiosyncratic world of Red Sox relievers

What goes on out there — what do the relievers talk about — while they're waiting to get the call, perhaps in a high-pressure situation?

Peter Abraham: It was worth the wait for the Red Sox to land strike-throwing reliever Chris Martin

Dax Shepard, left, and Kristen Bell on Oct 1, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard address Logan Airport controversy: ‘People suffer from outrage addiction’

When they faced an hours-long flight delay at Logan last month, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard resolved to camp overnight on the floor with their two young daughters. But their social media post about the incident didn't go over so well.

Opinion

The area known as Mass. and Cass, with encampments along Southampton and Atkinson streets.

Address both health and safety at Mass. and Cass

Housing-first model is necessary but not sufficient.

The Russian Oppenheimer

With local news under direct assault, our politics and towns suffer

IDEAS | MICHAEL SERAZIO

The algorithm vs. the syllabus

Ardem Patapoutian and Vicken Cheterian

US can help ease the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh

More recent News

‘Things like this bring a positive energy’: Boston’s Dominican community celebrates Dominican Cultural Day in City Hall Plaza
Dominicans account for almost a quarter of Latinos in Boston. On Wednesday, they celebrated their role in the city with a cultural festival outside City Hall.

In court filing, Kendra Lara’s attorney argues for dismissal of JP car crash case
The Boston city councilor faces multiple charges in connection with a June crash where police say she slammed an unregistered and uninsured car into a Jamaica Plain home, injuring her 7-year-old son.

In New Bedford, the ‘sexy seagull’ is ruffling feathers once again
The controversy over artist Donna Dodson’s “Seagull Cinderella” sculpture has been reignited this summer.

Hawaii governor vows to block land grabs as fire-ravaged Maui rebuilds
Hawaii’s governor vowed to protect local landowners from being “victimized” by opportunistic buyers when Maui rebuilds from a deadly wildfire that incinerated a historic island community, as schools began reopening.

Former Brazilian military police officer convicted in 2015 massacre arrested in N.H.
Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal Filho, 29, was convicted of 11 murders and sentenced to nearly 276 years in prison in June, officials in Boston said Wednesday.

Swampscott to cut down 100-year-old beech tree as new disease plagues New England communities
The tree is believed to have fallen victim to beech leaf disease, which has spread quickly through the Northeast in recent years. Along with severe droughts, the disease has taken a toll on the treasured trees.

Recommended reads

Recruits listened at the Marine base on Parris Island, South Carolina.

Pentagon watchdog finds lax oversight and screening of military recruits with extremist ties

Screening lapses can have dire consequences. A recent Globe investigation revealed that at least 82 current and former military service members with far-right, antigovernment, or neo-Nazi views were arrested in the last five years.

Fenway Health staff and managers clash as iconic agency plots future
Fenway Health, long a linchpin of care for the LGBTQ+ community, has faced a spate of challenges in recent years, from a protracted scandal involving one of its staff to issues of racial equity.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

How Mayor Wu’s high school plan could lead to closures
Among the questions left unanswered: Which schools will close to accommodate the staggering growth of both of those schools?

A side effect of intense rainfall? More basement flooding. And pricey basement repairs.
This summer has been one of the rainiest on record, and local homeowners are paying the costs.

Culture & Lifestyle

Some New Bedford residents want to remove artist Donna Dodson's sculpture "Seagull Cinderella," which returned this year for the city's 10th anniversary Seaport Art Walk.

In New Bedford, the ‘sexy seagull’ is ruffling feathers once again

The Jonas Brothers (left to right) Nick Jonas, Kevin Jonas, and Joe Jonas at TD Garden Tuesday night.

Jonas Brothers, in it for the long haul last night at TD Garden

The rap duo Earthgang performs at the GLD FSTVL at City Hall Plaza in Boston. The festival on Saturday was put on to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop.

GLD FSTVL threw hip-hop a 50th birthday celebration on Boston’s new ‘front yard’

Christopher Innvar in Barrington Stage Company's "The Faith Healer."

In Barrington Stage’s gripping ‘Faith Healer,’ truth is a slippery thing

Special Projects

Photo Illustration

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Former Vice President Mike Pence greeted people at a campaign event at American Legion Hall Post 27 in Londonderry, N.H., on Aug. 4.

Suddenly, Mike Pence is acting ‘brand new’

F-15 Eagle fighter jets flew over a beach in Tel Aviv in April to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Israel's creation.

It’s time to end US military aid to Israel — for both countries’ sakes

It is said that in crisis there is opportunity — and the opportunity has never been better for Governor Maura Healey to truly put her stamp on the Parole Board, set it on a path that would keep it out of further legal trouble, and make it function as the gatekeeper it was designed to be.

Healey’s big chance to reshape Parole Board to her values

A helicopter dropped water on the Caldor fire in the Lake Tahoe area in September 2021.

IDEAS | BOB REGAN

Notes from the burn scar

Surgeons performed a kidney transplant.

The organ transplant system needs fixing

"This city is special," the author writes, "and Boston, so restrained in emotion, deserves to hear this more often."

IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

My farewell love letter to Boston

Metro

Georgia man convicted in murder of 17-year-old Malden girl in 1991

A Middlesex Superior Court jury brought closure to a more than three-decade old killing this week when it found a Georgia man guilty of shooting a 17-year-old Malden girl on the fire escape outside the apartment where she lived with her foster family.

A big crash and a big win on the high seas

On the Rhode Island Report podcast, the skipper of a Newport-based team recounts the first US win of an around-the-world race in the 50 years.

On Nantucket, billionaires reach agreement in clam shack dispute. But for the owners, the fight to open isn’t over.

Charles Johnson, the principal owner of the San Francisco Giants who owns a fishing cottage next to the proposed restaurant, reached a tentative agreement with fellow billionaire Steve Karp, who owns the property.

With COVID on the rise again, here’s a guide to staying safe in 2023

The new COVID shots won’t be available til fall. Here’s what to do in the meantime.

Sports

USA coach Vlatko Andonovski (R) comforts midfielder #10 Lindsey Horan (L) at the end of the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Women's World Cup round of 16 football match between Sweden and USA at Melbourne Rectangular Stadium on August 6, 2023.

US women’s national team coach Vlatko Andonovski resigns after early World Cup exit, AP source says

US women’s national team coach Vlatko Andonovski has resigned, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The Red Sox bullpen is a world unto itself during ballgames.

Tales from the bullpen: Inside the idiosyncratic world of Red Sox relievers

What goes on out there — what do the relievers talk about — while they're waiting to get the call, perhaps in a high-pressure situation?

Stone Garrett hit a solo home run for the Nationals in the fourth inning Wednesday night.

Nationals 6, Red Sox 2

Red Sox rally to tie, then Nationals explode in eighth on way to win

Washington hit four home runs, two by Stone Garrett.

Peter Abraham | On baseball

It was worth the wait for the Red Sox to land strike-throwing reliever Chris Martin

Top seeds Molly Smith and Mekhala Costello lead Mass. Women’s Amateur Championship into quarterfinals

Aljamain Sterling and Sean O’Malley trade verbal blows at UFC media day

Business

On Nantucket, billionaires reach agreement in clam shack dispute. But for the owners, the fight to open isn’t over.

Charles Johnson, the principal owner of the San Francisco Giants who owns a fishing cottage next to the proposed restaurant, reached a tentative agreement with fellow billionaire Steve Karp, who owns the property.

New Mexico congressman in swing district seeks health care trust for oil field workers

A bill aimed at compensating oil field workers and immediate relatives for uninsured medical costs associated with air pollution and heat-related illness has been introduced by a first-term congressman from New Mexico.

Jerry Moss, co-founder of A&M Records and Rock Hall of Fame member, dies at 88

After Kansas paper is raided, officials are ordered to return what they took

magazine

My parents bought our family burial plots years ago. But my plans might change.

We’re newcomers to a beach town, and we don’t feel welcome

Persian Tomato and Cucumber Salad (Shirazi Salad)

Three seasonal tomato salad recipes that make the most of summer’s bounty

A man who goes by the alias Zero struts down the runway during a clothing-optional gun show at Body Freedom Village, on the fourth day of the Porcupine Freedom Festival, an annual event held by the Free State Project.

These libertarians want to take over New Hampshire

metro

Melissa Bagley drowned after jumping into the water near Franconia Falls to help rescue her 10-year-old son.

Lynn woman drowns trying to save son at N.H. waterfall

‘Things like this bring a positive energy’: Boston’s Dominican community celebrates Dominican Cultural Day in City Hall Plaza

Former Harvard president Drew Faust sees colleges as forces to drive change, tackle inequities

sports

For some, the bullpen cart — a staple of the sport in the 1970s and ‘80s that was revived and then re-retired in recent years at Chase Field in Arizona — elicits strong emotions.

So far, Red Sox pitchers have passed on ride from Nationals bullpen cart

Dominican authorities launch probe into Rays All-Star shortstop Wander Franco

Aaron Rodgers says he’s not overly concerned with the Jets’ offensive line, but should we believe him?

business

Tweets are displayed on Twitter Inc.'s TweetDeck website on a computer at the Boom Live office in Mumbai, India, on Friday, March 28, 2019.

Elon Musk now is requiring users of X to pay for access to TweetDeck

Google tests an AI assistant that offers life advice

Tuohys ready to end conservatorship for Michael Oher, inspiration for ‘The Blind Side,’ lawyers say

politics

Rep. Gabe Vasquez, a first-term Democratic congressman from New Mexico, spoke during a news conference to announce the bipartisan Southwest Caucus, Thursday, June 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. A bill aimed at compensating oilfield workers and immediate relatives for uninsured medical costs associated with air pollution and heat-related illness was introduced by Vasquez Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023.

New Mexico congressman in swing district seeks health care trust for oil field workers

North Carolina bans transgender care for minors as Republicans override veto

Georgia prosecutor wants March trial start for Trump case

Nation

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari appear at the Los Angeles premiere of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" on July 22, 2019.

Britney Spears’ husband files for divorce, source tells Associated Press

Hawaii governor vows to block land grabs as fire-ravaged Maui rebuilds

After Maui’s wildfire horror, residents search for a way forward

World

The emergency contraceptive levonorgestrel was displayed for sale in a vending machine on the University of Washington campus in Seattle on Friday, June 2, 2023. Taking piroxicam, which is typically prescribed for arthritis, together with the morning-after pill levonorgestrel could boost its effectiveness when taken up to three days after unprotected sex, according to new research published Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023.

Common arthritis drug could boost effectiveness of morning-after pill, study finds

Coup in Niger upends US terrorism fight and could open a door for Russia

Russia hits Ukrainian grain depots again as a foreign ship tries out Kyiv’s new Black Sea corridor

opinion

Pamela Williams clutched the hand of her husband, Terrance Williams, at a State House press conference in June in which he was one of seven people Governor Maura Healey recommended to be pardoned.

Parole Board’s lapses can be laid at feet of Governor’s Council

Joe Biden needs to address queries about his son Hunter

Don’t call them ‘mistakes.’ Unjustified police encounters are acts of anti-Black terror.

lifestyle

Dax Shepard, left, and Kristen Bell on Oct 1, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard address Logan Airport controversy: ‘People suffer from outrage addiction’

Add wedding cake to the Kowloon’s menu: Restaurant closing for a private event for the first time in history

Tom Brady building palatial bachelor pad in L.A., reports say

food & dining

The Straight Wharf Fish Market on Nantucket. Charles and Ann Johnson‘s house with the white porches is the property to the right of the proposed new restaurant in the middle.

On Nantucket, billionaires reach agreement in clam shack dispute. But for the owners, the fight to open isn’t over.

You’ll have to leggo this Eggo if you’re under 21

A new point of view for Bar Enza

travel

The Eiffel tower viewed from Trocadero Square in Paris, France, on Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Two Americans, fast asleep in a no-access area of the monument, showcase yet another instance of tourists behaving badly at iconic landmarks and places of national importance.

Drunk American tourists spent a night in the Eiffel Tower, prosecutors say

Take an en plein art walk

Top vacation spots are now threatening bad tourists with jail

Arts

Andrew Mowbray's “Tempest Prognosticator” at the Provincetown Public Art Foundation summer 2023 installation exhibition.

Provincetown Public Art Foundation aims to make town’s ‘artistic soul visible’

Brice Marden, who rejuvenated painting in the 1960s, dies at 84

Big ideas come in small packages in MFA’s ‘Tiny Treasures’

Books

Asante Blackk and Kylie Rogers star in director Cory Finley’s "Landscape with Invisible Hand."

Aliens and teen reality stars: Welcome to M.T. Anderson’s future

Keith Waldrop, professor and heralded poet, dies at 90

James McBride, in ‘The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store,’ builds a rich portrait of a Depression-era Black and immigrant community around the mystery of a skeleton in a well

Movies

Not only did last year's “Top Gun: Maverick” gross more than $1 billion, but its rollout is widely credited with encouraging the public to return to movie theaters.

Tom Cruise still feels the need . . . the need for speed. And I’m here for it.

Aliens and teen reality stars: Welcome to M.T. Anderson’s future

DiCaprio-backed film says key beef supplier to the US has a dirty secret

Television

Jamie Dornan in "The Tourist."

UK viewers bring back ‘The Tourist’ for a second season

‘Masters of the Air’ follows in footsteps of ‘Band of Brothers,’ ‘The Pacific’

Tom Brady building palatial bachelor pad in L.A., reports say

music

FILE - Herb Alpert, left, makes a trumpet of his Grammy award alongside Jerry Moss, as the two hold their Trustee Awards during the 39th Annual Grammy Awards in New York on Feb. 26, 1997. Moss, a music industry giant who co-founded A&M Records, died Wednesday at his home in Bel Air, Calif. He was 88. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Jerry Moss, co-founder of A&M Records and Rock Hall of Fame member, dies at 88

In Between Days is back with another day

Jonas Brothers, in it for the long haul last night at TD Garden

Theater/Dance

Christopher Innvar in Barrington Stage Company's "The Faith Healer."

In Barrington Stage’s gripping ‘Faith Healer,’ truth is a slippery thing

For Brenda Withers, ‘The Ding Dongs’ rang true

August Wilson’s biographer, on illuminating a playwright who illuminated America

Health

Research nurse Sarah French checks on Rodolfo Almeida of Providence at The Miriam Hospital's new Stephen and Diana Lewinstein Center for Innovative Cancer Research, a clinical area where patients receive investigational cancer treatments.

Changing the landscape of cancer care in R.I.: Lifespan, Brown to seek NCI designation

To better understand alcohol addiction, new research is turning to fruit flies

Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research

Obituaries

FILE - Herb Alpert, left, makes a trumpet of his Grammy award alongside Jerry Moss, as the two hold their Trustee Awards during the 39th Annual Grammy Awards in New York on Feb. 26, 1997. Moss, a music industry giant who co-founded A&M Records, died Wednesday at his home in Bel Air, Calif. He was 88. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Jerry Moss, co-founder of A&M Records and Rock Hall of Fame member, dies at 88

Anthony Grasso, WWII vet who gave thanks to the officer who saved his life, dies at 98

Joann Meyer, longtime editor of a besieged newspaper, dies at 98